Hello,I want to apologize in advance for how little I know on this topic, and about programming together. I am not asking for myself, but to give some advice to a young family member of mine. He works with a company that uses a ColdFusion website, and we were speaking the other day about how the company is looking to eventually hire a new ColdFusion programmer.Here is the problem for my nephew: he doesn't have any programming experience. He is very computer savvy for a young guy, and he is very interested in going after this, but he told me he doesn't know where to begin. I took the obvious course and said "aren't there such things as ColdFusion classes?" but he seems to think it is not so simple as that - like you can't just jump in as a total beginner into working with ColdFusion?So I thought I would do a little research. If you were just starting out, and were looking to eventually develop and program a coldfusion website, how would you start? What steps would you take (the more detailed the better)? Someone told me "he should start out by learning HTML", but if you could even break that down more - how would you go about learning HTML? If you have any more questions for me about my nephew, i'd be happy to answer them.Thanks!
Hi! Cold Fusion is the name of a commercial rapid web application development platform. ColdFusion was originally designed to make it easier to connect simple HTML pages to a database.One of the distinguishing features of ColdFusion is its associated scripting language, Coldfusion Mark Up Language.ColdFusion is most often used for data-driven websites or internet.More basic features of it as below: Simplified database access Client and server cache management Client-side code generation, especially for form widgets and validation. i give some basic info for coldfusion and i recommend one site for your nephew :tomkitta.com/guides/cf_101.cfm I hope it will help you.
There,s a couple of books with sample. that can be very helpful. you can setup a ColdFusion test server on you machine and run some sample program
Adobe books from Ben Forta and Ray Camden are the best place to start. Typically a three-volume set, you can get them online or in your local book store. It'll take him through the syntax and utilize basic structures (loops, DB interaction). They give excellent examples. Ben Forta and Ray Camden has a web site on CF. CF is a tag-based language like HTML, and there's usually a lower learning curve than other server side scripting languages.
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First step - learn programming. Not "learn Cold Fusion" - programming has nothing to do with any particular programming language. Algorithms and Data Structures is an excellent course, and it's free for the download. (He's going to have to expect to spend months learning programming - it's not something he can pick up in a few weeks.) Cold fusion is pretty simple for a programmer to learn. Just looking at some code, and having a language reference available, is about all that's needed. For a non-programmer, it's pretty close to impossible to learn almost any programming language. (Plenty of people posting here think they know one or more languages, but their questions make programmers laugh - they know as much about programming as a person with a body knows about biochemistry. And the company isn't going to hire someone who doesn't know programming.) As for learning HTML (and he has to learn CSS also), they're not programming languages. He can learn either one by starting with a tutorial for that language. Try http://www.htmldog.com/guides/htmlbeginner/ for HTML and http://www.csstutorial.net/ for CSS. Asking us how we would do it won't give you any useful information. As someone who has been earning his living by writing computer programs for 40 years, if I had to learn a new language, I'd open a language reference, look at some code and learn it.